Monthly Archives: June 2019
June 30, 2019 — John Hinderaker
Sorry. Those times are p.m.. It’s shifted a bit, and I will now be on at 8:05 p.m., Eastern time. Tomorrow morning at 8:35 Eastern, I will be on the Rod Arquette Show on KNRS in Salt Lake City, talking about Living In an Age of Hate. This is a show I have done a number of times in the past, and is well worth tuning in to if you
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June 30, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
Stephanie Grisham is the new White House press secretary, having just replaced Sarah Sanders. Grisham has been Melania Trump’s spokesperson (and still is, I think). From what I have heard, she is decent, hard working, and tough. Today in North Korea, Grisham took on North Korean security personnel in order to enable members of the U.S. media to gain access to an area where President Trump was meeting with Kim
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June 30, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post writes: In his first face-off with his rivals for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Joe Biden came off as a candidate trapped in amber. . . . It wasn’t just that his age and his rustiness showed, though they did. The real problem was that Biden seemed to have been dropped onto the center of the debate stage from a different era and looked bewildered
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June 30, 2019 — Steven Hayward
We at Power Line are not categorically opposed to recycling. So I repair to an old post from the last election cycle in 2016. Back then Bernie Sanders got a lot of buzz over this ad featuring Simon & Garfunkel’s “America,” though as a lot of people at the time remarked, it looked more like scenes from Burlington, Vermont, the morning of a Phish concert: My first thought on viewing
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June 30, 2019 — John Hinderaker
Byron York takes a dispassionate look at today’s political/cultural landscape, which is beginning to resemble the one that preceded the Civil War: The toxicity of the resistance to President Trump has risen in recent days, with the nation’s most respected newspapers publishing rationalizations for denying Trump supporters public accommodation and for doxxing career federal employees, while a journalist found himself under physical attack from the so-called anti-fascist group Antifa, which
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June 30, 2019 — John Hinderaker
Andy Ngo is a journalist who writes for National Review, Spectator USA and Quillette. Among other things, he has documented violence perpetrated by the fascist group Antifa. Yesterday Ngo was covering an Antifa demonstration in Portland when he was set upon and beaten up by around 20 masked thugs. This is what the Antifa group looked like, marching and chanting in typical Brownshirt fashion: The left-wing demonstrators easily number in
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June 30, 2019 — John Hinderaker
Kamala Harris has interjected her elementary school experiences into the 2020 presidential campaign as a means of attacking Joe Biden. As I wrote here, I don’t think this is a place where Democrats should want to go: bring back forced busing! Michael Ramirez links to Paul’s latest post on the issue and adds this cartoon. Click to enlarge: That sums up Harris’s candidacy rather neatly. Wherever she may have gone
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June 30, 2019 — Scott Johnson
Former Assistant United States Attorney Sidney Powell now represents Michael Flynn in the criminal case that still awaits his sentencing. This past Monday Powell and Flynn appeared together in court for a status hearing before Judge Emmet Sullivan. A partially redacted transcript of the hearing is posted here on Scribd. Margot Cleveland commented on the hearing last week in the Federalist column “Michael Flynn Attorney Suggests Special Counsel Withheld Key
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June 30, 2019 — Scott Johnson
You may not want to understand the Supreme Court’s June 27 decision essentially nixing the Trump administration’s effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. You may not want to know where the Supreme Court derives the authority to weigh in on this issue. You may rather want to know how such a fundamental question ever came to be omitted from the Census in the first place. The
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June 30, 2019 — Scott Johnson
In the world of collecting, our occasional correspondent Dave Begley is what they call a completist. In his “live from Iowa” coverage of the 2020 field of presidential contenders, Dave is leaving no Democratic candidate behind. When Marianne Williamson brought her unlikely campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to Iowa yesterday (thumbnail photo and photo below courtesy of Dave), Dave was on hand to cover the festivities, such as they
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June 29, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
The East Bay Times reports on the busing of Kamala Harris in Berkeley, California circa 1970, about which I have been speculating. If the report is accurate, Harris’s claim that she was “part of the second class to integrate her public schools” is not quite true. Berkeley’s public schools were integrated long before Harris was bused. However, the busing program that more fully integrated her elementary school was instituted the
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June 29, 2019 — John Hinderaker
The second night of Democratic presidential debates drew a big audience: Thursday night’s bruising Democratic primary debate set [a] ratings record for the party, as NBC News’ presentation of the two-hour event averaged 18.1 million viewers. That beat the previous high of 15.8 million viewers set by CNN in October 2015, when Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders first sparred in front of a live TV audience. The week’s second 10-candidate
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June 29, 2019 — Steven Hayward
You could be forgiven for thinking this week’s Democratic debates were straight out of an old Monty Python sketch, which prompted Steve to ring up Power Line’s International Woman of Mystery, “Lucretia,” for a full-tilt boogie rant-fest about what ought to be the two main “Freeport questions”* that could unravel the Democratic Party between now and election day next year. Are we really going to bring back busing? And how
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June 29, 2019 — John Hinderaker
Jimmy Carter’s latest is at best delusional. It seems almost inconceivable that a former president would say something like this, but we live in a time when all norms have been abandoned by the Democratic Party: There is no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election. By buying a tiny handful of Facebook ads that promoted Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, and attacked Marco Rubio and
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June 29, 2019 — Scott Johnson
Bob Newhart makes infrequent live appearances at age 89, but he was featured last night at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Minneapolis as part of the first-ever Minneapolis Comedy Festival. He must have three generations of fans in Minneapolis. The line to get into the theater wound around the block last night. I think it’s fair to say that Newhart is beloved. What a thrill to see him perform a
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June 29, 2019 — Steven Hayward
Good grief! We’ve got several more months of debates like this? I’m suffering a popcorn hangover, and I’m on my third liver of the week already. The clear winner is Donald Trump. Cheer up—if the Dems flame out as it appears they will, AOC will be the top Democrat come 2021. Won’t that be fun. Headlines of the week: And finally. . . a blast from the past:
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June 28, 2019 — Steven Hayward
With all the attempts to pander to hispanics by speaking Spanish, I’m surprised that Mayor Pete didn’t answer debates questions in Norwegian (seriously—he knows Norwegian), Mandarin, and binary code. But that’s about the only joke missing from this new offering from our pal Remy Munasifi, who “joined” the Dem debate stage this week. I was wondering when we could expect to see this.
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